248 CXLIII. CYPERACER. 
cyperographers, Brown and Kunth, such as the ama or ahsange of of ee nr 
bristles, have in many instances broken down in sequence of t Wisin 
encrease of known species since their time. Nees v. Es Sige cronted #6 E ie Jess con- 
by splitting up the genera upon minor characters which have kc 8 aad 
À : re 
large portion of the Australian species, and in many Page it sountrios dum. 1 Pe vi 
careful mpage it prom or lacere species in r countries The 
been able; bo certain whether those hare vigi ae "en distin — 
order m ‘than “any other hune a oi a vision on the of a “the prin 
tanist. d dev ? to the ak. of carefully Los tinising 
cipal British ane ‘Continental 
" am indebted to Dr. Garcke, “Director e the sius ist pite at Berlin, ws 
ian Cyperaceze it c nabled me to identify 
new under other names for which I ae substituted Packers de 
pear to me to be denos # vitre very slight varieties of publish: 
witht the a of a Seleri ~ about ii I feel very uncertain. ith several 
Trine I. Scirpese.—Spikelets niter ik eue tered —_— or c pr od ape = ls 
often numerous Wes S Sv Jlowers ly (except ir 2 Kyllinga) re edut les when pre- 
Empty glumes oe PM base usually only j or i Hypog deese bristles or scates 
sent t filiform 
apr hd bor 3or 4 and flowers 2 or 3 in Fimbristylis cyperoides.) 
Spikelets small in LS Me orlobed head rhet ort 
ike, with 1 rarely 2 ih Ead inner glumes 
na par Ahin the nut and falling off with it 1, KYLLINGA. 
Spikelets e TEE or spicate, the clusters or spikes soli- 
simple or dnd umbels. Glumes dis- 
as fes Style not bulbous. No hypogynous bristles 2. CYPERUS- 
Spikelet solitary. Glumes imbricate all round. 
- guns bristles usually present. Nut preie iy by 
i b 
e persistent dilated base of the . 8, HELEOCHARIS 
pikaista solitary clustered or umbelae, ` Glumes i im- 
bristles " style thick crei but 
es. ckened or bulbos at the base but 
ips mecum X aah curta hiec I 4. FIMBRISTYLIS: 
S pikelets pier or did. late: m 
umbel. Glumes imbricate all round. Style 
continuous ut Hy bristles 
p tor 4 Xe isa. i JanS e O SOREN 
Spikelets in a terminal head or . Glumes imbricate 
us scales 2, flat and 
the glume . 6. LIPOCARPHA. 
Spikelets clustered, the clusters usually paniculate 
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